Biology:Oberea pupillata

Short description: Species of beetle

Oberea pupillata
Oberea pupillata. Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Cerambycidae
Genus:	Oberea
Species:	O. pupillata
Binomial name
Oberea pupillata (Gyllenhal, 1817)
Synonyms
List Oberea pupillata Denux, 2005 Oberea pupillata Gouillard, 2003 Oberea pupillata Haeselbarth, 1983 Oberea pupillata Haeselbarth, 1985 Oberea pupillata Küster, 1846 Oberea pupillata Micas, 2005 Oberea pupillata Mouthiez & Péru, 2008 Oberea pupillata Mulsant, 1839 Oberea pupillata Pesarini & Sabbadini, 2007 Oberea pupillata Sama, 2003 Oberea pupillata Secchi, 1998 Oberea pupillata Severin, 1889 Oberea pupillata Teocchi, 1970 Oberea pupillata Villiers, 1978 Oberea pupillata alsatica Pic, 1915 Oberea pupillata bimaculatoides Breuning, 1947 Oberea pupillata cognata small> Kugelann, 1857 Oberea pupillata luteonotata Pic, 1918 Oberea pupillata pseudodepressa Breuning, 1947 Oberea (oberea) pupillata Brustel, Berger & Cocquempot, 2003 Saperda pupillata Goureau, 1866 Saperda pupillata Gyllenhal, 1817

Oberea pupillata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Leonard Gyllenhaal in 1817, originally under the genus Saperda.

Distribution

Mounted specimen

This species has a wide distribution throughout Europe. It is present in Austria, Belarus , Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic (Bohemia, Moravia), Estonia, France , Germany , Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland , Romania, Russia , Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain , Switzerland and Ukraine .

Habitat

These beetles mainly inhabit sub-mountainous environments and forest edges, but they can also be found in parks where the host plant is present.

Description

Oberea pupillata measures between 13 and 18 mm (0.51 and 0.71 in). These beetles have a long and slender body. Head, thorax and abdomen have all about same width, and elytra are not tapered. Head and antennae are black and antennae are shorter than body. Pronotum is orange with two elongated black spots on the sides. The elytra are mostly blackish, yellowish at the base and rather hairy. The body is orange, with black markings on the sides and below the abdomen. The last abdominal segment shows a black mark. The legs are orange.

This species in quite similar to Oberea oculata (Linnaeus, 1758).

Biology

Adults fly from May to September. The life cycle lasts from two to three years. Usually a single egg is laid in a branch of the host plant, after making an incision on the bark. Larvae are xylophagous. These stem borers live and feed mostly in longitudinal galleries on etruscan honeysuckle (Lonicera etrusca).

Bibliography

• Edmund Reitter: Fauna Germanica – Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches. 5 Bände, Stuttgart K. G. Lutz 1908–1916, Digitale Bibliothek Band 134, Directmedia Publishing GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN:3-898-53534-7
• Gyllenhal Leonard (1817) Appendix ad C. J. Schönherr Synonymiam Insectorum. Descriptiones Novarum Specierum Insectorum, In Schönherr. Scaris, in Officina Lewerentziana 1 (3): 1-266
• Heiko Bellmann: Welches Insekt ist das? Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN:3-440-09874-5
• Tronquet, M. 2014. Catalogue des Coléoptères de France. Revue de l’Association Roussillonnaise d’Entomologie, 23 (Supplément): 1-1052

External links

• Lamiaires du monde (in French)
• Alamy.com
• Photo at Gezieferwelt.de
• Insektenbox (in German)
• Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterologists

Wikidata ☰ Q1499097 entry